-v PAGE FOUR1 TAM' Mi(IIIiAN I AIL 3 SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1954 Ike Batting. One for Ten PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in this ses- sion of congress has experienced only lim- ited success in getting proposed legislation approved. The President has sponsored legislation in ten basic fields, and has but one certain success, although several of the proposals were referred to committee where they now reside. The latest action on one of the Eisen- hower-supported programs was the defeat of the eighteen-year-old vote, killed Friday in the Senate. This proposal, felt many of the southern senators, was an invasion of states' rights, and therefore was doomed to defeat. The President's request for a revision of the Taft-Hartley Bill was virtually killed for this session when it was recommitted to a Senate committee by vote in that house. Realizing the opposition to be encountered by a proposal for a three year renewal of the reciprocal trade agreement with renewed power to lower tariffs, Ike put that proposal off for a year, and suggested in its place a one-year extension. That bill is presently in a house committee. Although a one-year extension may go through, too much pres- sure is present because of the impending elections in the fall for any Congressman to vote for long range continuation of low tar- iffs when voters from his district are crying for protection. Proposed legislation to implement the Administration's farm program calling for a flexible system, is also in committee. The flexible, or "sliding scale" parity, it is hoped would prevent an over-supply,. believed to be one of the great factors in any depression. The Democrats contend that a rigid parity is a better way to in- sure security for the farmers and the nation. Proposals to stimulate private nuclear de- velopment and share atomic data with allies, are also still in committees. These proposals, it would seem are sound ideas for coopera- tive defense, but the widespread fear of Communist subversion in the nation may curtail passage. The tax revision called for by the Admin- istration has been passed by the house and is pending before the Senate Finance Com- imittee. In the field of housing the broad pro- posed program of financial aids passed in the house, but without the public housing feature asked for by the administration. The measure is now being acted on by thej Senate Banking Committee. A health bill to provide limited government reinsurance to private health insurance plaps is in committees at the present time. In addition a measure to authorize federal grants for specialized medical centers pass- ed the House and is pending in the Senate. The Eisenhower social security program has been recently passed by the House Ways and Means committee and although the Senate cannot move on the bill until the House passes it, it has been given high pri- ority. It appears that the bill will pass, for, as in the case with most social welfare pro- grams, the elections next fall carry a great deal of weight when a congressman is con- sidering his vote on such items. That leaves the St. Lawrence. Seaway project the only one which has been signed by the President. Considering Ike's one-for-ten batting aver- age it appears that the Eisenhower team needs some more hits to solidify its position before the fall elections. -Lew Hamburger The Copland Violin Sonata ..e eie r^6to (lhe e6Iitor *.. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following analysis is the work of Gilbert Ross, professor of violin and chamber music and first violinist of the Stanley Quartet.) THERE HAS NEVER been a period in the history of music as rich in compositions for the violin as the century from 1650 to 1750. Indeed, this extraordinary hundred- year span, with its long line of illustrious Italian violinist-composers (to say nothing of Bach and Handel) might properly be termed a sort of "golden age" of fiddle music, The 19th-Century saw a dwindling inter- est in the violin among serious composers (though not among the concert-going pub- lic nor among the ardent violinistic long- hairs), perhaps because of the tremendous creativity and influence of such piano com- posers as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, plus the colorful appeal of the or- chestra and the dramatic attraction of music for the theatre. With the exception of a handful of concertos and sonatas by Bee- thoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Franck (plus, of course, the Chausson Poeme), the period was singularly impover- ished in important works for the violin. It should be borne in mind, perhaps, that there existed no violinistic counterpart to the flood of admirable short piano pieces that seemed to literally trickle off the fingertips of Chopin; Schumann ,and others. Although volume of output in the violin field was large, the bulk of it fell into the quasi-salon music category of the Paganini-Spohr-Lip- inski-Ernst-Bazzini-Wieniawski-Vieuxtemps chain, and this music has finally (and for- tunately) receded from public consciousness and found its own artistic level which, for the most part, is pretty low. Today this music is dated. It is period music, music of vogue and fashion. Its worth is so ephemeral that once the 'fashion' that created it had passed, its reasons for being no longer exist- ed. Severed from its age and the fashions that begot it, it stands as pretty hollow stuff, a little stale and musty, reminiscent of a 'fancy' that has long since come and gone. It is interesting to note that while this music has gradually been relegated to the studio shelves, the works of Corelli, Vivaldi, and others of the earlier century have come to the surface where their shin- ing beauties are 'unveiled' again and again in the concert halls of today. It is gratifying (and comforting, too) to observe that the violin still has a few at- tractions for the serious composer of our ownj age. Hindemith, Bloch, Strawinsky, Schon- berg, Berg, Bartok, Ives, Sessions, Piston, and Diamond are only a few of the contem- porary composers who have been drawn to the violin and have cast major works for that medium. And Aaron Copland, too-a composer whose stature and distinction are beyond question. With Copland's concern with music for the theatre, ballet, movies, orchestra, and piano, it is a little surprising that he nevertheless found the time and had the inclination to produce, in 1943, one of the best sonatas for violin and piano that has emerged since Ernest Bloch's monu- mental effort of 1920. Although the Copland Sonata has already achieved a place of wide recognition and acceptance, it would never- theless appear fitting to again focuswatten- tion on this work since violinists who may not know the work are still clamoring for a contemporary score of real distinction. Copland's work is terse in statement and economical in means. Its three compact di- visions (Allegro, Lento, Allegretto giusto), tightly integrated in texture and style, con- stitute a superbly constructed arc whose terminals are firmly anchored in foundations of the same musical germ, and whose broad, soaring curve is artfully graduated in dy- namic and emotional levels. The writing is linear and the music is lean in texture though never in emotbnal resource or moving pow- er. For once the keyboard part is not clut- tered up with piano-writing of the 'Sturm and Drang' school, with its pastry-rich and over-bearing sonorities. And for once the violin does not have to combat its more sonorous collaborator. Unpleasant by-pro- ducts of the usual violin-piano feud are con- spicuous by their absence. Copland's choice of thematic material is fortunate. The tunes (if such they may be called) are not 'ingratiating' in the common sense of the word, but they are insinuating, hypnotic, now with an art- ful curve, now with a sharply rhythmic angularity. Evolution of the thematic gropings of the introduction into the full- blown theme of the first Allegro is a masterstroke of thematic growth. The slow movement Is gently expressive, of great serenity, so hesitant in propulsive movement that it verges dangerously near the static. It begins and ends with an un- dulating line in quarternotes over a pedal point. Between these the composer pre- sents a tenderly searching idea in 6/4 meter, first in the violin, unadorned, later as a strict three-voice canon. The music is enveloping, permeating. The tonality of G is insistent but always elusive, pervading all but never wholly resolving. Meter, in the Lento as throughout the sonata, is never frozen and never allowed to harass the music's curve, direction, or flight. The Finale, opening with a rhythmically ner- vous and jerky theme for solo violin, pi- quant and racy, develops brilliantly and makes much of a broadly cantabile second theme. In this movement, too, the com- poser's grasp of the function of counter- point (as expression rather than device) is fully exemplified. The work in total takes about twenty minutes. It is a work for advanced players although it places no emphasis on virtuosity. The inner division is technically undemanding. The Copland Sonata is in every respect a mature and polishefi score, revealing those attributes of craftsmanship, originality, and fecundity of ideas that we might expect in a composer of his achievements. Here we find a compatible marriage of the composers' craft and his musicality, fused to achieve an expressive and moving end result-the only one, as a matter of fact, that could make sense to the listener. It has been said that Copland, like Stravinsky, has two sides to his art-the luxuriant warmth of El Salon Mexico and some of his ballet scores, and the icily calculated harshness of the Piano Variations. If this be so, then the composer has found a happy fusion of the two, with the best elements of each, in this Sonata. Emotional response may be evoked by se- vere and restrained expression as well as by easy sentiment. The Copland Sonata, wher- ever it may be placed in the composer's scale of expressivity, creates precisely that listener response. -Gilbert Ross DREW PEARSON: Washington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON - Adm. Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Com- mission who rules that organization as if on the deck of a battleship, has now developed a yen for meddling in other government de- partments. Secretary of Defense Wilson has already objected to Strauss's interfering in Defense Department business, but the Admiral now has barged into the field of State Depart- ment operations. The other day R. Gordon Arneson, veteran atomic adviser to Bernard Baruch, Acheson and Dulles, was called into the office of Un- dersecretary of State "Beetle" Smith and told Admiral Strauss didn't like him. Furthermore, Strauss had told Secretary Dulles that he didn't like him. And since Arneson's duties included liaison between the State Department and the Atomic Ener- gy Commission, Dulles felt that Arneson should be removed from his job. As a result, Arneson was given a scant 24 hours to wind up his eight years of service on the atomic front, though given a- chance to remain an Assistant to the Secretary of State with other duties. Meanwhile, two and possibly three mem- bers of the Atomic Energy Commission are resigning, in part because of Admiral Strauss's martinet methods. Commissioner Henry Smyth, one of the oldest members, is resigning, while Commissioner Zuckert's term is expiring and he will not accept re- appointment. Finally Commissioner Thomas Murray has been talking about getting out, but now indicates he will stay long enough to vote for J. Robert Oppenheimer and against Admiral Strauss when Oppenheim- er's security case comes up before the Com- mission for vote. JOHNNY-COME-LATELY'S At the auspicious ceremony that marked President Eisenhower's signing of the St. Lawrence Seaway Bill, attended by 45 Sena- tors and Representatives, there was one per- tinent comment not carried by the newsreels. It came from Democratic Congressman John Blatnik of Minnesota, who, like Repub- lican Sen. George Aiken of Vermont, had been an unswerving crusader for the Seaway Bill through its many ups and downs in Congress. As Eisenhower signed the legisla- V UN Should Decide .. . "That's Right-Three" To the Editor: JNDO CHINA is the present cen- ter of the getting-warmer war. The Administration suggests threet possible actions: (1) massive retal-'--- iation, (2) a defense pact, (3) in-I ____ tervention with U.S. combat troops. (We have already intervened to the extent of money, arms. mili-' tary advisors, air ferry and ground crews.) '-- Massive retaliation should not be employed, primarily for moral r reasons. Also, such an act would loose for us all pro-Western sym- pathy that may exist in Asia. A pact may or may not be effec- tive. NATO seems to be effective against aggression in Europe. But the propo4ed pact would have to deal principally, not with aggres- sion, but with internal rebellion - . and these rebellions in the ' various Asian countries, India, In- . d'4.? " donesia, Malaya, have been gen- r uinely internal in their origin. 4- FGty Also, such a pact would have to be sought by the Asian nations in- ' volved. To impose a pact, and we have been known to use economic pressure to impose our ideas on - others, would be just as undemo cratic as any action of the Com- munists, and would incur an en- forced Asian dislike of "White I have seen them the next morn- evening, May 25. There will be a Domination." g, read their paper with pride. discussion period. Intervening (with all that term Of late, however, they and I This is also a special invitationI implies) with combat troops again, have realized that much of their to those who want to know more unless sought by the Asians them- work has been in vain; has been about the activities of the Labor selves, would also heighten their meaningless. For the past few Youth League. Please contact me dislike of "White Domination." weeks The Daily has been printing at Normandy 28629. In an April publication by the nonsense. It has been wasting not -Mike Sharpe, Chairman State Department concerning the only the time and energy of its Labor Youth League Geneva Conference, it was stated, workers, but precious space in its * * * "Our success in negotiations in- columns that might be used for a Senate Motion ... volving the Communists is partic- factual coverage of the pertinent ularly marked in the UN. There events of the day. To the Editor: we have always enjoyed the sup- Let me assert at this point that port of an overwhelming majori- there is no such thing as a uni- 1T IS extremely important that ty of the member governments in corn! I am aware that the Lawyers the procedure recommended by deflating Soviet proposals and up- primarily refer to this much pub- the University Senate and approv- holding free world principles. The licized equestrian marvel as a ed by the Board of Regents for State Department worked through horse and only secondarily, with the handling of cases in which fa- the UN in the internal strifes of tongue in cheek, as a unicorn. Nev- culty members are involved in in- Indonesia and Korea. Why not ertheless, a fictitious concept has vestigations by outside agencies follow its own lead? been introduced here. One does be followed as objectively and dis- A UN general assembly decision not need a Bachelor of Law de- passionately as possible. The mo- is the only form of settlement gree to know that there is no such tion made at the meeting of the which can (1) win public support thing as a unicorn. And if a thing University Senate last Monday to of the world around, (2) be im- does not exist, it cannot logically establish a committee to investi- partial, (3) prevent further Com- be the subject of an argument or gate the manner in which the Uni- hmunist successes. ever} of a sentence. Merely to talk versity administration has held in -Marian S. Gyr about it is ridiculous. The contro- confidence privileged information versy that has been aroused over would have created, had it passed, Takes Water to Horse .*. this non-existent, fictitious, illus- an emotional climate of mistrust ory concept is nonsensical. Are we, and unwarranted stress. Such a To the Editor intelligent students of this great committee would have infringed U ' 't tha a lr eupon the functioning of commit- T HAS long been my opinion that University to assume that a large upo n iin of o - Law School of the University, segment of the University popula- tees already in existence and op- in fact, the University as a whole. tion is talking nonsense? If we rating with due respect for the is one of the finest, indeed the must have notoriety, let it center rights of individuals. reatest school in the country around water fights. At least I The motion to table this propos- greaestschol n th contr. 'al was a proper motion an was One of the contributing factors to can picture that! as a poe mn and as thi gratnss s te Mchian Babs Adele Blacker passed by the Senate. Mr. Harry this greatness is the Michigan - Lunn's editorial of May 20, 1954, Daily-noted not only for the "lat- is in error in at least two respects. est deadline in the state" but for LYL Invites . . . The tabling of the motion was not excellent news coverage, editorial Toan act of the Senate. There was writing, and an independent work- To the Editornothing in the discussion in the ing organization which functions THE LABOR Youth League ex- Senate which could lead to Mr. well and is representative of the y !.tends a cordial invitation to Lunn's conclusion that faculty students. you to hear Mike Gold, editor, cri- opinion is "of little consequence" I have been fortunate enough to tic, poet and novelist, author of to the President. The President's visit the Student Publications "Jews Without Money," "Hollow statement in reply to the initial Building and to view the presses Men." and others. Mr. Gold was mtion clearly indicated his con- in action. Certainly, it is an in-} especially well known during the cern both for the integrity of the spiring sight. I have not estimated ( thirties as an exponent of the lit- University administration and for the amount of type set daily but erary trend known as proletarian the importance of faculty confi- I assume that it is great. I have literature. He is now on a na- dence in the administration. seen my friends come into the tional speaking tour in celebration -HIoward R. Jones dorm late after working long of his sixtieth birthday anniver- Professor of School hours on night desk etc. And then sary, and will speak here Tuesday Administration DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Mixed Up? ... To the Editor: ROBINA QUALE, I suggest you reread my letter. You're pret- ty confused. -Willie B. Hackett * * * Give Him. ir .. . To the Editor: HAVE JUST read the article about Tom Arp and I wonder something. Just who is this Tom Arp anyhow that is a campus le- gend? .I have never heard of Tom Arp and I have been to school here ten years as an undergraduate and graduate in steam engineering. I have lived in Ann Arbor for ten years now and I never heard of any Tom Arp. I do not recall see- ing anyone like the article des- cribed, ever. I think that articles like this are only planned to pub- licize the names of a few people in the student publication claque. Actually, I never read the Daily for ten years, only when someone leaves one on my office floor which is what happened today. Then I found a piece of your sta- tionery in the garbage so I knew where you were. I do not think stories about people like Arp are in the public interest even though I never heard of him. Now another thing. I think something should be done, like a long series of stor- ies, about the poor ventilation in the steam compression lab in the second basement of the engineer- ing building. Five other people and-me have been working in this damp place for seven years now, eight and ten hours a day, some- times twelve, and the air condi- tioning is not working and never did. Here we are making great contributions to the science of steam engineering or we will as soon as the boiler is fixed, and we can't get any air hardly. Instead of writing long stories about pub- lications people like Tom Arp, why don't you try and do something about the ventilation down here? I would like to see a few editorials someday about this place. It is impossible to work In. Damp, you know. Just happened to think; somebody told me you forgot to mention me in the honors supple- ment. I won the Ezra W. Thatch- body.award in steam engineering last month for my design of a steam powered trombone. This prize was an unabridged set of the steam tables in eleven vol- umes in greek. I think this should have been mentioned if it wasn't. And get busy on that story about the ventilation down here. Forget about Tom Arp. I never heard of him anyway. -Dave Kessel A COLLEGE "welcome" for these (congressional) investigations is wrong because it does vio- lence to the fundamental principal that institutions of higher learn- ing ought to be independent of the government in the same way, and for much the same reasons, that the church and press are in- dependent of the government. They cannot make their vital con- tribution to a free society if they are subject to political control. I am not questioning the legal authority of Congress to investi- gate institutions of highlearning. ..Congress has plenary powers, to look into any area of American life. But to say that Congress has the power to investigate is not necessarily to say that power ought to be exercised. In my own view, it ought resolutely to be eschewed in regard to universities (since) their business is to produce men and women who will'question in- herited views and challenge con- stituted authority. -Alan Barth J -4 ' *'1 4; CURRIEINT MQOIE'S4 I At the Michigan ... GILBERT AND SULLIVAN, with Maurice Evans and Robert Morley HAD EXPECTED, from the previews, that this film would be a delight for the Savoy- ard and possibly rather dull for anyone else. I was pleasantly disillusioned. It is a fine, pastel-colored story of the turbulent partner- ship of William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sulli- van, who have become something of a legend in light opera. The film deals mainly with Sullivan, who wanted to be remembered for his serious work and wound up famous for his light music. As played by Maurice Evans, Sullivan is a sensitive man, rejected by his girl for not sticking to serious work, and troubled by the belief that his music is secondary to Gilbert's words. He and Gilbert are continually in the throes of fighting over this, and breaking the part-. nership, which doesn't stay broken for long. Gilbert in his turn is incensed that Sullivan and Richard 'D'Oyly Carte, their manager, ate spending so much time build- van's final attempt at grand opera, "Ivan- van's final atempt at grand opera, "Ivan- hoe." They have a break that lasts some- thing like two years, but are reconciled at a return engagement of "Yeomen of the Guard" and plan to take their curtain calls in wheelchairs. But Sullivan dies just before the finale. The film is interspersed with bits from the cent of that used in "Moulin Rouge" for its delicacy of color, and its reproduction of late 19th-century England is superb. As to the acting, Robert Morley stands out as Gilbert. He strides pompously about generously Alistributing samples of the famous Gilbert wit, and whether he is roaring at Sullivan, complaining about his gout, or nervously walking around a misty London (Gilbert hated opening nights and would walk all over London until the fi- nale, and then return to take a bow), he is excellent. Maurice Evans' Sullivan is un- assumingly good as he tries to combine his two loves, serious and light music. He is knighted by Queen Victoria towards the middle of the film and believes she prefers his oratorios to his, light operas. He is therefore dumfounded when she an- nounces she loves "Gondoliers" and has memorized most of the tunes. The picture ends on a more somber note: Sullivan dies just after the duo has been reconciled again, and the film movingly contrasts this with the death of Jack Point in the "Yeo- men of the Guard." The stage finale coun- terbalances the real one. Hollywood has made one or two furtive attempts in the past to do film versions of the G. & S. operettas, notably Kenny Bak- er's "Mikado," and these have died a dismal death. It remained for the British to do "Gilbertandsullivan" the way it should be done, even in brief as it is here. I hope they will see their way clear in the future to pro- duce the operettas full length; and if they do them as this film is done. there can be no The Daily Official Bulletin is an College of Engineering Literature, Science, and the Arts, School official publication of the University College of Literature, Science and the of Education, School of Music, and of Michigan for which the Michigan Arts School of Public Health: .Daily assumes no editorial responsi- School of Music Students are advised not to request bility. Publication in it is construc- School of Natural Resources grades of I or X in June. 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